MASSAGE BARS

Step 1: Melt ingredients together in a double boiler, the Shea butter will melt quickly, so stir in the beeswax first.Step 2: Once the oils have melted you can add then add your essential oils. Be careful not to add them to soon, or your blend will evaporate too quickly.Step 3: Next pour the mixture into your lotion bar moulds and allow to cool.

Nourishing Cocoa Massage Bar

This is a great massage bar for dry skin just the right consistency, not too greasy or too hard. 24% Beeswax 36% Cocoa butter 38% sesame or fractionated coconut oil 2 % fragrance oil or essential oil

Hardness of Massage Bar

The article on body butter, looks at the hardness of the different butters.

This is something you will need to think about, when creating massage and lotion bars.

For example, Cocoa butter has a hardness of 10, so if you plan to create a bar made predominantly of Cocoa butter, then obviously you are going to create a very hard bar.

If you create a formula with 25% Shea butter, your lotion bar is going to be a lot softer and way more effective,

It is important to err on the side of caution, because if you use butters are too soft, they may disintegrate making it impossible to create a hard massage bar.

Ideally you want to create something in between, a massage bar that melts when it comes into contact with the skin.

The point is to get creative and play around with different butters and oils, until you reach the desired consistency you want.

6 Comments

jason frey on November 29, 2013 at 4:39 pm

Hey Samantha,

Great recipes, thank you. Hey got a question, can we replace beeswax with soy wax?

If you are making candles yes, but if you are creating something a natural product for the skin I wouldn’t recommend it! The problem with soy wax is that it is usually processed with paraffin oil, fragrances and dyes! Hope that helps x